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Definition of Ochreate
1. a. Wearing or furnished with an ochrea or legging; wearing boots; booted.
Definition of Ochreate
1. ocreate [adj] - See also: ocreate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ochreate
Literary usage of Ochreate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paxton's Flower Garden by John Lindley, Joseph Paxton (1850)
"When first received from the Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, it wag remarked to be so
much stouter in all its parts than the ochreate ..."
2. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"Flowers small, ochreate, 2-sexual. Sepal.* 5, subequal. Stamens 8. Ovary 3-angled,
acuminate ; styles 3. Nut broadly 3-winged, beaked. ..."
3. The Micrographic Dictionary: A Guide to the Examination and Investigation of by John William Griffith, Arthur Henfrey (1875)
"Filaments wh ip-shaped, wi th repeated ochreate sheaths, forming fronda in which
they ... The ochreate sheaths are cartilaginous, lamellated, firmly united ..."
4. The First Book of Botany: Designed to Cultivate the Observing Powers of Children by Eliza Ann Youmans (1873)
"ochreate.—When they form a sheath around the stem. If any of the distinctions
among compound leaves bother very young pupils, let the observation of such be ..."
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